Philosophy How Yoga Works Healing Yourself and Others with the Yoga Sutra Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally How Yoga Works by Geshe Michael Roach and Christie McNally creates a world in which a young woman from Tibet travels by foot to India in search of her next Yoga teacher, a person she has never met before. The book enters into the vivid landscape of a novel while providing real Yogic teachings to the reader, drawn from the extensive study of Tibetan and Sanskrit texts, as well as dedicated practice in monasteries on behalf of both authors.      In this novel and instruction manual on how to live a yogic lifestyle, quotations from the Yoga Sutras are woven into the plot seamlessly, providing a real life context for much of the wisdom the Sutras have to offer. The protagonist traveling into India personifies the movement of Yoga from Tibet over a thousand years ago. The whole lineage of Yoga is spoken of metaphorically in her journey into an Indian prison where she is held hostage until she can convey to her guards the secrets of how Yoga works to make us truly whole.      This empowering and inspiring tale will provide a new sense of access to the inner Teacher and Student within you. How Yoga Works will both pull you in like a favorite novel, and guide your heart’s questions like the most ancient Yogic text.      Geshe Michael Roach is the first Westerner in 600 years to pass the rigorous test for the title of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism, at Sera Mey Tibetan Monastery after 20 years of study. He is an honor graduate of Princeton University and has received the Presidential Scholar medal at the White House. Geshe Michael is the author of more than 30 translations of ancient texts, as well as books such as the international bestseller The Diamond Cutter and The Tibetan Book of Yoga.      Christie McNally is a translator and teacher of ancient Tibetan and Sanskrit texts. She is a graduate of New York University and has trained at Tibetan monasteries in Nepal and India. She is a professor at Diamond Mountain University and has studied yoga extensively with some of the greatest Indian, Tibetan, and Western masters of yoga. She recently completed the Great Retreat of three years, three months, and three days in the high desert of Arizona.      See the complete list of chapters after the buy button.

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This trade paperback book is 406 pages.

How Yoga Works Chapter List:

The Place We All Start From

Well-Being That Stays

A Reason Not to Skip

A Balance of Feelings

Doing it Right

The Harassment of Preferences

Cultivating the Practice

Channels of Light

North Star

Horses and Horsemen

Breath and a Smile

Breath and Heart

Silent Sitting

Learning How to Sit

Free Kindness

We Misunderstand Our World

The Pen Again

Out There, Over There

Even for Those Who Understand

Fist and Lightning

Truly, Everything is Suffering

A Vessel

Pride Before A Fall

Next to Godliness

Two Invitations

Flesh or Light

Seeds, and Not Decisions

Seeds are Planted

The First Question

The Gardening Begins

Breaking the Circle

The Fortress of Little Things

Difficult Questions and Difficult Answers

Worldview

Matching Pictures

Planting Higher Seedlings

Joy

Taking Not Thinking

Beginning the End of Old Bad Seeds

Old Debts Cancelled

The Spirits' Breath

Seeds of Thought

Easy Points

The Seer Dwells

Time and Space, Reduced to a Puddle

Standing on the River

Grace

Your Hand

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